Wed, 13th Mar, 2019 10 Mile Outcamp, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora, WA

Overcast, 25 degrees and no wind at 8am.

By 9am the wind had come up and was blowing well from the north.

11am 35 degrees and the sun is shining as the sky cleared which we need to be able to pump the water back into the new tank. All the water we put in has seeped into the soil so the well goes onto low well after a couple of hours. Will take a while for it to flow back into the well again.

I did the washing and worked on my jigsaw. Steve made a couple of brackets for the solar pump controllers as he noticed they are only held on with a strap.

Clouds are coming back down from the north at lunchtime. More humid today so we might get a storm. The hot northerly wind is blowing strongly. We played a few games of Rummykub for a change.

3pm 39 degrees, time for a dip in the pool which had stayed nice and cool.

Drove back to Holding Paddock to check the float is working ok and we are losing water onto the ground again. All good and the ground is drying out.

Checked St Patrick’s too. A big bull with his cow and 2 calves were having a drink but wandered off as we pulled up. I saw something move near the water pod and thought it was the dingo but it was a small calf. Somehow he was on the wrong side of the fence – I think he came in through the old sheep gate in the main gate. I opened the gate and tried to get him to go out that was but that was in the opposite direction to his family. He found a bit of fence that had fallen down so jumped through that and ran across to them mooing as he went. He had pretty little white hoofs. I wired up the fallen fence panel and Steve wired the sheep gate closed so hopefully nothing else will get trapped in there.

Found another dead roo on the other side so pulled it out and dropped it with the one from yesterday.

Black black clouds to the west and as we drove back we saw some great flashes of lightning. Looks like it is heading south.

Rang Margaret for a chat and to see when they might be heading up our way. Through the window I saw more lightning flashes but to the east of us so another storm must be travelling down on the other side.

Got our drinks and sat on the verandah as the wind picked up. It feels like the front of the storm coming so I closed up the van as the wind whipped up the dirt and hurtled it eastward. Fabulous lightning and thunder show then a few drops of rain started. The light rain continued as the storm passed over us – nice cool breeze now. This storm is heading east as the sky to the west is clearing now and we can still see the lightning flashing to the east. Still light pitter patter of rain as we headed into the van for dinner.

Erica rang, Terry’s aunt Eva passed away today in Maryborough. She would have been 97 on Friday. She had been pretty independent though had recently had a fall and suffered from cancer so it is a blessing for her not to suffer anymore. 

I messaged Jess to see how her Uni studies were going.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.